Happy Mondays: Wrote for Luck

legends dance club, manchester 1988

# 118) Talulah Gosh: Bringing up Baby

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Stevie Nicks - Original Stand Back US Fest 1983

Olivia Newton-John -

take me home country roads in japan in 1976
how could anyone abandon the lovely olivia newton john?
fascinating tale in the telegraph today :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/4365293/Olivia-Newton-Johns-missing-ex-boyfriend-Patrick-McDermott-found-via-internet.html

John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009)

john updike was a fellow pennsylvanian and an inspiration for me from a young age. i first read a short story of his in an english class at st joe's prep. it was called A&P and it was perfect. the story has such clarity and awareness for detail it should come as no surprise that john updike studied as a painter at the ruskin school of art at oxford before he turned his talents to literature. my early studies were primarily in creative writing before i became a painter. i always looked up to john updike as an example of how to use both practices in service of each other. in fact right now a drawing of mine called 'the storm #2' is on view at the ICA in philadelphia that includes a quote by john updike that reads:

"Why write? As soon ask, why rivet? Because a number of personal accidenss drift us toward the occupation of the riveter, which pre-exists, and most importantly, the riveting gun exists, and we love it.

Think of the pencil. What a quiet, nimble, slender and then stubby wonder-worker he is!"

-john updike

Patrick McGoohan Interview, 1985

the other day finishing up a project i found out about the passing of ricardo montalban and patrick mcgoohan. when i was in high school i used to use ricardo montablon as an alias whenever i met someone i didnt particularly care for. in regards to patrick mcgoohan he was and is so cool. amc has the entire Prisoner series posted online and you can watch it for free here: http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner-1960s-series/
also i noted before that the name of my blog comes from howard hughes favorite film Ice Station Zebra which of course patrick mcgoohan stars in. in this clip the winsome jane pauley interviews patrick in 1985. he conducts his part of the interview cooly reading from the back of an envelope. making one know for sure that chat shows are terribly unimportant to him, he is only interested in acting and the story and he is so very good at being and telling each.

ghosts of American Astronauts - Mekons

so so beautiful. i bought a t shirt and some cds from the wonderful sally timms about ten years ago in philadelphia. she was wearing a t shirt with a softly painted american flag on it.

Baby come back

og eddy grant from 1968 when he was in the equals. this is great.

I Can't Let Go/ The Hollies (1966)

Evie Sands - I Can't Let Go

1965

Brix Smith interview, 1989.

Shocking Blue - Shocking You

mariska veres voice is so so close to the top. killer band.

Let Her Go -- Strawberry Switchblade

great pop!

plastic bertrand

'tout petit la planete' 1979

The Cure

fire in cairo live in boston 1980